False Prophets and Empty Oracles

9 My heart within me is broken

Because of the prophets;

mAll my bones shake.

I am like a drunken man,

And like a man whom wine has overcome,

Because of the Lord,

And because of His holy words.

10 For nthe land is full of adulterers;

For obecause of a curse the land mourns.

pThe pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.

Their course of life is evil,

And their might is not right.

11 “For qboth prophet and priest are profane;

Yes, rin My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.

12 “Therefore stheir way shall be to them

Like slippery ways;

In the darkness they shall be driven on

And fall in them;

For I twill bring disaster on them,

The year of their punishment,” says the Lord.

13 “And I have seen 5folly in the prophets of Samaria:

uThey prophesied by Baal

And vcaused My people Israel to err.

14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:

wThey commit adultery and walk in lies;

They also xstrengthen the hands of evildoers,

So that no one turns back from his wickedness.

All of them are like ySodom to Me,

And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:

‘Behold, I will feed them with zwormwood,

And make them drink the water of gall;

For from the prophets of Jerusalem

6Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”

16 Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.

They make you worthless;

aThey speak a vision of their own heart,

Not from the mouth of the Lord.